Just wondering how long this collection of effects is going to take to complete? Over a year now and we only have 6 issues. Mind you Psience is still waiting to be completed. I await the next issue with baited breath

The unseen effect that we haven't had any instructions from. In the box is a envelope with UN on could this be it (It has a black dot on too)

Just rereading the official blurb that went out. Note the bold

ACT NOW!

When you join you will be sent your complete The Works custom collection delivered via First-Class Mail to anywhere in the world. Every month thereafter you will receive digital instructions for one of the routines, effects or devices in your collection. As you receive instructions for the standup mentalism act, you will also learn the details of how to put the act together, how to make the routines fit your style and persona, updated tips, professional insights and more.

You'll receive at least a year and a half of instructions and routines and perhaps even a little bit more for no additional cost to you. Every month you will learn a piece of strong, practical mentalism you can start performing immediately. In addition you'll receive a “catalog style” description of the effect that will be taught the following month giving you a month of performance and anticipation. At the outset you will receive a box filled with the dozens of special items you will need to perform the routines.

at this point i would prefer them to release all the documentation en masse and let us work through it on our own. the experiment was an interesting one - encouraging magicians to spend time on an idea and then build on it - but with the delays it just doesn't work. (it also assumes magicians work through anything instead of just sating their need for novelty before lookingfor the next shiny object.)

i think a nice touch would be to mail everyone a simple spiral bound book with all the monthly instructions included and consider the set 'completed'.

i'm just one voice among many, but i think that is a satisfactory conclusion.

Brad, I think that's a dandy idea, but I know they've been sending out the instructions as they are being written up. So there is no way to do a book (or at least that isn't a way to solve this problem).

Got home from work and read it, printed it out and experimented with it. I remember someone showing this to me at a convention in Vegas 100 years ago but I forgot about it and what they are doing with it is really different and smart.

Started trying to solve some of the questions in the back of the issue. My kind of puzzle for a guy who hates puzzles because when you figure it out, you have extra effects to perform with the same method.

Mac Stone wrote:Issue 8 of The Works has finally landed in our inboxes.

It's quite good, IMHO.

Agreed.

I'm a huge Weber fan, really love his work and his thinking. What I love the most is seeing the evolution of his ideas.

Issue 8 is an advancement of something he published in his Complete Mental Act, theres a presentational point he published there that he did not put in The Works that I think is a very strong way to finish this routine.